[ILUG] How much of MBR is partition table?

[Pete]

Hi Conor,

The MBR contains Boot Code + Partition Table
In my earlier (less educated) days I used the DOS Debug command to load
and
disassemble the bootup code.  One sector long and the first sector on
the disk.

dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR.img bs=512 count=1

is the correct command ok,

but what exactly are you hoping to do?
If you re-partition the drive, restoring the MBR afterwards is a bad
idea.

Peter.


Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> Just about to embark on some repartitioning and I'm wondering, Where
> exactly is the partition table on an IDE disk anyhow.  Is
> 
> dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR.img bs=512 count=1 enough?
> 
> TIA
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